The refusal of the Minister of
Transportation and the leader of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State,
Rotimi Amaechi to endorse Senator Magnus Abe as the governorship candidate of
the APC in the 2015 elections has been likened to a football manager benching
his star player.
This allusion was made by the
former Senator who represented Rivers West Senatorial District in the 7th Assembly,
Senator Wilson Ake during a function organized to drum support for the 2019
governorship ambition of Senator Abe.
Senator Ake who is a major
beneficiary of Amaechi’s political magnanimity was quoted to have alluded to
the fact that the Minister will be removed as the Leader of the Party if Abe is
not allowed to fly the Governorship flag of the APC come 2019.
In his allusion, Senator Ake
described Amaechi as the “Coach” who benched his star player , “Lionel Messi”
during a keenly contested football match.
But some stalwarts of the APC in
Rivers State have described the statement credited to Senator Wilson Ake as
“everything wrong with Nigerian politics.”
In the words of Sentor Ake, “In
2015, APC played a match with formidable PDP and benched its Lionel Messi.
“In 2019, we shall play another
match and the coach is saying that we shall bench Lionel Messi again. Will that
happen?
“We shall not bench Messi (Abe)
again rather we shall change the coach (Amaechi)”.
Meanwhile, a UK-based Nigerian
Lawyer and prominent politician from Rivers state, Charles Ahaolu has said
Ake’s comments were uncharitable to the personality of the Minister adding that
, “The innuendo of ‘changing coach’ is a political strike over the bar.
“It is an attempt to ‘eat a
squirrel while it is still alive’. No politician including the author of that
quote will tolerate that,” he said
The APC in Rivers State has been
divided over the row between former Governor and now Minister of Transportation,
Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Magnus Abe, leading to the suspension of many top
politicians in the state.
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This is the true nature of Rotimi 'back stabber' Amaechi. He will never change and will continue to suffer the consequences.
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